A workshop on mobile AJAX was being held Friday at Microsoft offices in Mountain View, Calif., convened by the World Wide Web Consortium and OpenAjax Alliance.While the meeting was not open to the press, participants were to explore user and industry use cases and challenges around AJAX (Asynchronous JavaScript and XML) on mobile devices. They also were to examine what types of applications are expected to succeed in mobile environments. OpenAjax Alliance, for its part, has formed a task force to study mobile AJAX. Standardization also was to be a focus of the event. Among the participants submitting position papers included organizations such as AOL, Dojo Foundation, Harvard Medical School, IBM, Microsoft and Sun Microsystems. Software Development